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One must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the autocrats among us can be “literalists of the imagination”—above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them, shall we have it.

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Friday, September 5, 2014

The Valley

Here in the Valley, bread on the table

Work through the day for as long as we are able

Here in the valley, dark is the night

Out of the darkness into the light

DAVID HIDALGO is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, percussion, accordion, bass, keyboards, melodica, drums, violin, banjo) from East Los Angeles best known for his work with Los Lobos and the Latin Playboys. Los Lobos is celebrating its 40th year of playing "the soundtrack of the barrio" with a live CD called Disconnected in New York City. I love listening to him play this solo, acoustic version of this song, baring it down to its essence. Here is a version of the iconic song "Will The Wolf Survive?" from the same solo performance. I know some of you will really enjoy this.

Toads, I hope you will be inspired by David Hidalgo, Los Lobos, "just another band from East LA," the Barrio, wolves, National Geographic magazine, putting food on the table, hard work, making a home, making a life, finding light from darkness or whatever moves you to write a new poem and share it with us today. I look forward to reading!

11 comments:

cool selections, Marian. struck a chord (so to speak). I was lucky to see Los Lobos playing outdoors in Lower Sproul Plaza 30 years ago, when I attended Berkeley (various bands played a set there regularly at lunch time). good question, too - what will survive this 6th great extinction event powered by we "h. sapiens" ~

Hi Marian ~~ It is a fun song, a little sad but that's the way it goes. Thank you for sharing. Right away I thought of "The Grapes of Wrath" but then I thought of me.

A man looses several things in his life, hard on him and different from women's losses; his freedom (some try to keep it causing lots of troubles), his dog and/or horse, and his pickup truck. There are more but these are ones I have experienced so far personally (the freedom loss two times).

Wow! We are swimming in negativity from Facebook posts to news outlets. We can't climb out of the pit if we're always feeding on rea...

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